Salt-shaker.



PATENTBD PEB. 5, 1907.

- 0. KAMPPE.

SALT. SHAKER.

APPLICATION FILED OOTA'I. 1905.

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OTTO KAMPFE, OF NEI/V YORK, N. Y.

SALT-SHAKER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Feb. 5, 1907.

A eplicatou tiled October 7,1905. Serial No. 281,729.

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Be it known that I, OTTO KAMPFE, a citi- Zen of the United States,residing at the borough of Brooklyn, in the county of Kings, city andState of New York, have invented an Improvement in Salt-Shakers, ofwhich the following is a specification.

As usually constructed heretofore saltshakers consist of a body of glassor metal and a removable perforated cap or cover, and a device hasheretofore been employed within these shakers in the form of a prongedbar to break up the damp salt in an effort to obviate the trouble thatarises from the influences of moisture taken up by the salt in humidweather and at the seashore, which moisture makes it almost impossibleto shake the salt from the holder.

The object of my invention is to make it possible to shake the salt outof the holder at all times with substantially equal .facility rcgardlessof its condition.

In carrying out my invention I provide a device within the salt shakeror receptacle having a predetermined extent of movement axially of thebody of the shaker normally distant from the perforated cap, so as toleave an air-chamber between the same and the under side of the cap,into which the salt enters as comminuted by and shaken through themovable device previous to the salt passing through the perforated cap,said movable device acting to comminutc the salt. This movable device ispreferably in the form. of a fora'minous plate provided with a suitablesupport and a means for limiting its extent of movement, the same beingproperly guided in the neck of the salt-receptacle and movable along thesame. This movable device is provided with series of projections risingfrom the general plane of the structure either from one or both sides ofthe same, and where the foraminous plate is employed these projectionsare preferably from both sides of the plate, and I prefer to employ inconnection therewith a center pin adapted to contact with the undersurface of the perforated cap at the center thereof, so as to assist inlimiting the extent of movement.

In the drawings, Figures l and 2 are vertical sections showing acomplete salt-shaker, and Fig. 3 a vertical section at the upper end ofa salt-shaker, the three vfigures representing forms of my invention.Fig. 4. is a plan of the receptacle as shown in Fig. 1 without the coverand movable device, and Fig. 5 is a plan, in larger size, of theforaminous plate structure shown in Fig. l.

Referring to Figs. 1-4, inclusive, c represents the body of thesalt-shaker, and c the neck thereof. These parts may be made of anysuitable material and in any manner well known in the art, preferencebeing given to glass, as the same is very easily cleansed. The neck a,as shown in Figs. l, 2, and 4, is molded with an exterior screw-thread,and the perforated cap b, fitting over the neck, is provided with ascrew-threaded iiange which unites with the screw-thread of the neckwhen the cap is connected to the body of the shaker, as shown in Figs. Iand 2, while, as shown in Fig. 3, the neck of the receptacle is madesmooth and slightly tapering and the cap providedv with a smooth surfaceto hold to the same frictionally when pressed tightly to place.

By means of the device employed by me the internal space is separateddivisionally at about the base of the neck, so that between the underside of the cap and said point of separation or division there is achamber formed in the neck, the function of which is to break up thesalt in the body portion a as the same is shaken for delivery, whichaction causes a substantially regulatable quantity to pass into theneck-chamber to be delivered through the openings in the cap, and where'the same is damp and refractory in its movement this prevents the bodyof salt packing within the salt-shaker against the inner surface of thecap and clogging up the opening, as has heretofore been usual in thesedevices, it being a fact in the present case that at this line ofdivision the salt is commiuuted, and a limited quantity passes this lineof division through the chamber and through the perforated cap. I haveshown equivalent means for producing this division in a salt-shaker,Figs. 1 and 5 representing one form, Fig. 2 another form, and Fig. 3still another form, of my invention.

Referring to Figs. 1, 4, and 5, c2 are notches made in the rim of theneck e/ at spaced-apart intervals, four of these being shown in Fig. 4.In these figures, c represents a foraminous plate having pointed projeetions e spaced apart between the holes of the plate and advantageouslyextending out -from opposite surfaces or sides 'of the plate at rightangles to the plane of the plate. c2 is a central pin of predeterminedlength, and c suspending arms, four in number, as shown IOO in Fig. 5,and of a length agreeing with the length of the center pin, with theirextreme ends turned over at right angles to the line of the arms and thediameter of the arms across the plate being slightly less than theinternal diameter of the neck. The turnedover ends of the arms c3 arereceived in notches a2. Consequently when the salt-shaker is in anupright position, such as shown in Fig. 2, these arms rest at the basesof the notches a2, and in shaking the salt from the receptacle amovement is given to the foraminous plate substantially equal to thedepth of the notches, the plate moving along in the neck a until thecenter pin and the ends of the arms strike the under surface of theperforated cap, this device moving back and forth with the up-and-downmovement of the shaker in the hand, such movement further assisting inbreaking up the salt and in causing the same in regulatable quantitiesto pass through the perforations of the plate, through the chamberbetween the plate and the cap, and through the perforations of the .nthe form of my invention shown in Fig. 3 the foraminous plate (Z, theprojections d, and the center pin (Z2 are the same as shown in Figs. land 5. This plate, however, is provided with guiding-arms (Z3 and thebase of the neck a of the receptacle with projections or a ledge a3,formed integral with the receptacle. These projections or ledge supportthe plate and the parts connected therewith at a predetermined point,and the center pin d2 and arms d3 are of the same length, the lengthproviding for a movement of the plate with the movement of thereceptacle, which movement substantially agrees with the movement hereindescribed of similar parts with reference to Fig. l, the function andthe operation being exactly the same.

' In the form of my invention shown in Fig. 2 the movable device is madeof wire and comprises arms e in a common plane occupying about theposition of the foraminous plates c d heretofore described. This movabledevice also has projecting ends e of the arms e, guiding-arms e2, whosediameter across the plane of the arms e is slightly less than the innerdiameter of the neck a. There is also in this movable device a centerpin e3. rFhe ends of the arms e2 are overturned, as are the arms c3 inFigs. l and 5, and these wires are l gathered together as a stem et,held together is so supported, and the entire wire structure shown ismovable axially of the salt-receptacle and its neck when the same isshaken for the removal of the salt, the central arms initially acting tobreak up the salt, and the wires or arms e, in a plane parallel to theperforated cap b, permit regulatable quantities of the salt to pass bythe same into the chamber formed between the same and the cap, so thatthe main body of the salt in this form of the invention, the same as inthe form shown in Figs. l and 2, never reaches the cap, and suchquantities as pass by the plane of the arms pass freely through theneckchamber and through the perforated cap.

l claim as my inventionl. A salt-receptacle having one end there,- ofperforated, a pulverizing device loosely mounted in said receptacle nearsaid perforated end and adapted to produce a chamber near said endsubstantially separate from the body of the receptacle holding the saltand means on said receptacle for supporting said pulverizing device andfor guiding the same to give said device a slight axial movement withrespect to said receptacle when the same is shaken.

2. A salt-receptacle having one end thereof perforated7 a pulverizingdevice loosely mounted in said receptacle near said perforated end andadapted to produce a chamber near said end substantially separate fromthe body of the receptacle holding the salt, means on said receptaclefor supporting the pulveriZing device and devices forming part of thepulverizing device and extending out from the periphery thereof withinsaid chamber for guiding said pulverizing device during a slight axialmovement imparted thereto with respect to the receptacle when the sameis shaken.

3. The combination with the body and neck of a salt receptacle or shakerand a removable cap therefor, of a device adapted to fit and temporarilyremain within the neck of the shaker and produce therein a chambersubstantially separate from the body of the receptacle holding the salt,and said device being loosely held at portions thereof between the capand portions of the neck of the receptacle whereby a slightreciprocatory movement is given to said device when the receptacle isshaken.

4. The combination with the body and neck of a salt receptacle or shakerand a removable cover therefor, the neck being provided with notches ofappreciable depth at intervals in the upper edge, of a device adapted to'lit and temporarily remain within the neck of the shaker and producetherein a chamber substantially separate from the body of the receptacleholding the salt, and guide-arms forming part of said movable devicewhose diameter is slightly less than that of the neck of the receptacle,with overturned ends to the arms received in but of relatively lessdiameter than the depth of the notches said notches serving as a meansof support IOO IOS

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normally for said movable device whereby an l having notches in the rimand a removable axial movement may be given to said device perforatedcap for the receptacle, of aforamiby the shaking of the structure asheld in the nous plate adapted to be received in the neck hand. i of thesalt-shaker and having pointed proj ee- 'lhe combination with the bodyand l tions extending out therefrom and at right neck of a saltreceptacle or shaker, the neck angles to the plane thereof andguide-arms having notches in the rim, and a removable whose extremediameter across the plate is erl"orated cap for the receptacle, of a`foramislightly less than the inner diameter o'l" the nous plate adaptedto be received and temy neck with the upper ends of said armsoverporarily remain in the neck of the salt-shaker, turned and receivedin the notches of the devices engaging said notches for supporting neckkand thereby supported, said notches said `foraminous plate loosely inposition so providing for a predetermined and limited that there isformed a chamber in the neck movement of the said foraminous plate andseparate from the chamber holding the salt, its projections axially ofthe salt-shaker and whereby the salt shaken is obliged to passsimultaneous with the removal of the salt. through the foraminous plateand through Signed by me this 4th day oi October,

the chamber in the neck before reaching the 1905.

perforated cap and simultaneous therewith a OTTO KAMPFF movement isgiven to the said movable de- J vice axially of the salt-shaker.vWitnesses:

GEO. T. PINCKNEY,

6. The combination with the body and BERTIIA M. ALLEN.

neck of asalt receptacle or shaker, the neck

